Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

27th October 1714

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24th October 1714


I. The Certainty and Infallibility (as well as Necessity) of a Future Judgment after this Life: Which is declar'd to us by a threefold Voice, viz.

The Voice of{Scripture, Conscience, God's Justice.

II. The Severity and Dreadfulness of that Judgment; which to the Impenitent Sinners will be most terrible and intolerable, upon many Accounts, but chiefly these, viz.

1. The Sight of their Judge.

2. The Manner of his Coming to Judgment.

3. The Accusations of their own Consciences.

4. The Nature and Character of that Judgment; which will be Universal, Exact, Just, and Irreversible.

III. and lastly, The Use we ought to make of this Doctrine of a Future Judgment, so as we may (thro' Grace and Mercy) avoid the Severity of it, and be advanc'd to Endless Happiness by a serious Meditation upon it; duty considering, that it is,

1. A powerful Disswasive from Vice; because then it will most certainly be severely punish'd. And,

2. A strong Perswasive to Virtue; because then it will be most certainly and fully rewarded.

On the last LORD's Day, the 24th instant , I preach'd to them again, both in the Forenoon and Afternoon; and my Text was; Rom. 10. 9. - If thou shalt confess with thy Mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine Heart, that God has raised Him from the Dead, thou shalt be Saved.

Which Words having first explain'd, with their Context, in general, I then shew'd in particular,

I. What this Confessing of Christ with the Mouth imports.

II. What is meant by this Believing on Him in our Hearts.

III. l. What an Unspeakable Benefit will accrue to us from such a Confession and Belief, viz. Eternal Life and Salvation.

On these I enlarg'd, and then concluded with such particular Adnonitions to the Persons condemn'd, as I thought most suitable to




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